Even WordPress doesn’t always give you a pingback on all the sploggers out there. Sometimes if you google a post of your own it will bring up all sorts of spog echoes.

Most of the time it’s not worth complaining about a splog that links to your site. After all, it’s just another link for you, and every link helps raise your page ranking. Usually, they steal a few lines or a paragraph and then post a “read the rest here” link that takes them to your blog. You can set the program, I think, to not emit pingbacks. What I objected to in this post is that the jerk had lifted an entire article and posted it on his site as his own work.

You can, I understand, Google your post title and sometimes bring up scrapers. This, however, strikes me as more trouble than it’s worth. Really, if all they’re doing is lifting a graf and the linking back to your site, they’re upping your page rank, so that’s nothing to get excited about. What irks me is people who lift my copy and republish it, in toto, on their own site as though they wrote it. Grrr grrr grrr!